Book review: 9/11 ten years after: perspectives and problems J Howell – LSE Review of Books, 2012 – eprints.lse.ac.uk … As Rawnsley rightly points out, the US military’s use of fictitious ‘sock puppets’, that is, the use of ‘persona management software’ strains the legitimacy of liberal democracies, indeed putting them on a par with authoritarian regimes in the control of media and information. … All 2 versions Cite Save

Commercial Trolling: Social Media and the Corporate Deformation of Democracy D Golumbia – Available at SSRN 2394716, 2013 – uncomputing.org Page 1. David Golumbia Virginia Commonwealth University July, 2013 Commercial Trolling: Social Media and the Corporate Deformation of Democracy Abstract While “trolling” originally named and is today often thought to be the activity of recalcitrant or … Related articles All 2 versions Cite

What’s on your mind? Social media monopolies and noopower RW Gehl – First Monday, 2013 – firstmonday.datingen.net … with (or disconnect from) targets, or to share opinions and shape consensus in a particular direction.” [32] The roots of these programs, like so many other media technologies, lie in the US military, specifically the Air Force’s call for “Persona Management” software to help … Cited by 5 Related articles All 13 versions Cite

Astroturf and populism in Australia: The convoy of no confidence R Wear – Australian Journal of Political Science, 2014 – Taylor & Francis … George Monbiot cited the example of a whistleblower who claimed to have used 70 personae to create the impression of widespread support for his pro-corporate arguments. ‘Persona management software’ facilitates this kind of deception (Monbiot 201162. Monbiot, G. 2011. … Cited by 1 Related articles All 3 versions Cite Save

IHL 2.0: Is There a Role for Social Media in Monitoring and Enforcement? A Herzberg, GM Steinberg – Israel Law Review, 2012 – Cambridge Univ Press Page 1. IHL 2.0: IS THERE A ROLE FOR SOCIAL MEDIA IN MONITORING AND ENFORCEMENT? Anne Herzberg and Gerald M Steinberg* This article will examine the opportunities and limitations of using social media in the … Related articles All 3 versions Cite Save

The ‘sentient’city and what it may portend N Thrift – Big Data & Society, 2014 – bds.sagepub.com … Thus, the rise of social bots and so-called persona management software is a widespread phenomenon which means that much of the interaction which appears to be with and between humans is actually with computational machines (Isaacson, 2013; Urbina, 2013). … Related articles Cite Save